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From New York’s Daily Intelligencer, Chas Danner on how Bernie Sanders now seems to be trying to have it all ways, so long as those ways result in his nomination — is there any outcome in which Clinton is awarded the nomination that Sanders and his campaign would consider legitimate? Robert Reich has suggestions for both Clinton and Sanders supporters that neither will like. In the face of a well-funded attack machine that will dog her throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton has overlooked her most potent tool for fighting back: Her own sweeping democracy reform platform. Get over yourself and support Hillary Clinton: “Fighting for freedom and justice right now means limiting the damage this thug is doing to the norms that make everything else possible”. Jeffrey C. Isaac on neither angels nor demons and the importance of coalescing to defeat Donald Trump: “The November US presidential election offers a stark choice: neoliberalism or barbarism”.

John A. Ferejohn and Roderick M. Hills (NYU): Publius’s Political Science. Dating is drudgery: Alexandra Schwartz reviewsLabor of Love: The Invention of Dating by Moira Weigel. Rights vs. duties: Samuel Moyn on reclaiming civic balance. Rick Heller interviews Mark Satin, author of New Age Politics: Our Only Real Alternative. Andrew Mitchell Davenport interviews William Egginton, author of The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World. Single-payer health care is more popular than ever — here are 10 questions for its future. The Do Not Call list was supposed to defeat telemarketers, now scammy robocalls are out of control — what happened? Scott McLemee reviews Terry Eagleton’s new book, Culture, which unpacks the concept in its title. The Obama years have been very good to America’s weapons makers.

Ross Campbell (NYU): Justifying Force Against Animal Cruelty. David N. Cassuto and Cayleigh S Eckhardt (Pace): Don’t Be Cruel (Anymore): A Look at the Animal Cruelty Regimes of the United States and Brazil with a Call for a New Animal Welfare Agency. Courtney G. Lee (Pacific): The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty: Problems and Possibilities in Animal Testing Regulation. The cruelty of kindness: “No kill” animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering — is a life of misery any better than a quick death? Scott Fahrenkrug might end animal cruelty — unless GMO hardliners stop him. Yuval Harari on how industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history. Nicholas Kristof on animal cruelty or the price of dinner? Open the cages: Peter Singer reviewsThe Humane Economy: How Innovators and Enlightened Consumers are Transforming the Lives of Animals by Wayne Pacelle.

The idea that the differences between Obama and Clinton are big enough to be worth leaving the party over but the differences between Clinton and Trump are too minor to make the former worth supporting is even more ridiculous than the idea that the Democrat Party is suppressing America’s natural social democratic governing majority. Bernie, don’t do this: With a scorched-earth campaign against Clinton, Sanders is risking his party’s nominee, its coalition, and his message. Eric Levitz on how Bernie Sanders’s “scorched earth” strategy seems to be working. Everyday is a whining road: Is the Hillary Clinton campaign prepared for the possibility that Bernie Sanders may never actually concede? Robin Alperstein on becoming anti-Bernie.

Anthony Ince (Cardiff) and Geronimo Barrera de la Torre (Instituto Mora): For Post-Statist Geographies. From the United Nations Foundation, Jenni Lee on why empowering girls matters. New political earthquake in Brazil: Is it now time for media outlets to call this a “coup”? Patrick Iber and Mike Konczal on Karl Polanyi for president (and more). The selling of Obama: Michael Grunwald on the inside story of how a great communicator lost the narrative. Dorm life forever: Lizzie Widdicombe on Common, WeLive, Pure House, and other startups for communal living. Equal sex: In film and on TV, masculinity is sexy, safe — and more complicated than ever. Henry Farrell on Peter Thiel and vindictive billionaires. Even Gawker haters should fear the strategy Peter Thiel is using to destroy Gawker. Josephine Livingstone reviewsTrack Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum.